WEBVTT WLKY'S LAUREN ADAMS JOINS US NOW WITH MORE. LAUREN? LAUREN: GOOD EVENING TO YOU, VICKI. FLOYD COUNTY'S CART TEAM, THAT'S THE COMBINED ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION TEAM, IS CONTINUING THEIR INVESTIGATION. IT'S UNCL CHARGES WILL BE FILED, BUT THOSE THAT RESPONDED TO I-64 LATE LAST NIGHT SAY THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT, AND ONCE MORE, ONE THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. THIS VIDEO, CAPTURED BY FIREFIGHTERS SHOWS WHAT THEY WERE UP AGAINST WHEN THEY RESPONDED TO A THREE CAR CRASH JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TUESDAY. AND DESPITE THEIR BEST EFFORTS, THE MAN INK NOT ALIVE BY THE TIME LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIPS' DEPUTY CHIEF TODD SCHINDLER AND OTHER FIRST RESPONDERS EXTINE FLAMES. >> WHETHER IT BE A CHILD OR ADULT, ANYTIME ANYBODY LOSES THEIR LIFE, YOU NEVER GET USED TO THAT SITUATION. LAUREN: BUT THIS SITUATION, ACCORDING TO THOSE ON SCENE, HAD BEEN ESPEC THE VICTIM, DAVID L. SMITH OF NEW ALBANY, HAD DRIVEN TO I-64 WEST, NEAR MILE MARKER 120, TO GIVE A RIDE TO A FRIEND WITH CAR TROUBLE. SMITH WAS SITTING IN HIS CHEVY, WAITING AS HIS FRIEND WATCHED HIS PICK UP GET LOADED ONTO A TOW TRUCK. THAT'S WHEN THIS CAR A BLACK FORD FOCUS D KLARA HOLST HIT SMITH'S CAR, CAUSING BOTH TO SPIN OUT AND SMITH'S TO CATCH FIRE. COMING HOME FROM THE TOLD FIREFIGHTERS SHE HAD BEEN REACHING FOR SOMETHING. >> IT JUST TAKES THAT SPLIT SECOND FOR YOUR CAR TO DRIFT JUST A LITTLE BI LAUREN: CAPTAIN JIM MAYFIELD, A CHAPLIN WITH GEORGETOWN'S FIRE DEPARTMENT, SAYS HOLST WAS SHAKEN AND IN TE >> I JUST TRIED TO GIVE HER SOME COMFORTING WORDS, AND ME AND THE CHAPLIN FROM LAFAYETTE BOTH PRAYED WITH HER AND OFFERED THE BEST COMFORT WE COULD. LAUREN: SHE RECEIVED MINOR INJURIES, BUT FIRST RESPONDERS SAY THE TOW TRUCK DRIVER WAS LUCKY TO ESCAPE WITH HIS LIFE. >> IF HE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN WATCHING WHAT WAS COMING TOWARD HIM AND KEEPING AN EYE ON TRAFFIC, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SEVERELY INJURED OR KILLED ALSO. LAUREN: BUT THE SCENE ON I-64, SCHINDLER SAYS, WAS BAD ENO >> IT'S BEEN TOUGH. YOU THINK ABOUT IT ON AND OFF ALL DAY. LAUREN: LISTEN TO THIS, THOSE ON SCENE ESTIMATED HOLST DRIFTED JUST THREE FEET WHEN SHE HIT THE VICTIM'S CAR. THAT VICTIM DID HAVE HIS FLASHERS ON. THE TOW TRUCK ALSO TOOK PROPER SAFETY PRECAUTIONS. FIRST RESPONDERS SAY IAGRAVE REMINDER WHEN A DISABLED OR ANOTHER VEHICLE IS IN THE EMERGENCY LANE TO SLOW DOWN AND